STATUS revision 9eccc0a669a3e711629345b357c46acce5fefdb4
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manojLast modified at [$Date: 2000/12/22 22:44:45 $]
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0b1 : Scheduled to release December 26, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj rbb volunteers to be RM
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
4065b438067f3f08d0bd98b31ac4085b581b931dstoddard 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddardRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
2739add8add66e21526ce27f83c2ae133d089070rbb * Root all file systems with <Directory /> for WIN32/OS2/NW permissions
2739add8add66e21526ce27f83c2ae133d089070rbb Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14
4065b438067f3f08d0bd98b31ac4085b581b931dstoddard WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
211bf1d44f4653bf753a15740cd5ebbf330b6e93manoj * Error messages are filtered according to the needs of the original
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard URI. Nothing ensures that they are translated on EBCDIC machines
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard and *not* translated on ASCII machines.
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard Status: Bill will fix this.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
369edcdd0a9c5516c61e736ec2a6fc8fb0d92fe2manoj (at least) needs to be done:
369edcdd0a9c5516c61e736ec2a6fc8fb0d92fe2manoj - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard is not available on 95/98.
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard we access the logs?
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken,
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj also seem out of sorts.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj OtherBill is working on this
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: The best known candidate would be something from
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
56ca30c968906053ae61acb218420667bb58d996rbb containers.
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard * binbuild.sh may need to be updated. I haven't looked into this, but I
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard would be surprised if it works.
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard Status: rbb volunteers
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard * remove the --disable-shared from the subdir config of APR(UTIL)
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard before the final release. (in fact, it might even be nice to
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard allow for Apache config/build against an already-installed APR(UTIL))
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddardRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard * The directives to setup output filters need to be re-visited. These
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard directives aren't consistent with what we already have, and they don't
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard always make good sense.
9c09943bad734ebd5c7cc10bd6d63b75c4c6e056stoddard Status: rbb volunteers.
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard * FreeBSD has issues when sendfile is used. Some images aren't sent
7ba24263a36323ecaf0685758f44001c0800d012stoddard completely. The work around is to turn off sendfile support.
aa1faea36e4ae357bc603a2337b6adc54f5daec1manoj * release distros do not include a "test" dir. It should be
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj cleaned for the dev guys. (Greg volunteers)
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj Common logging API.
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj * Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj * Document mod_file_cache.
f03d292915be9977eaf74e9be7b0404aec226f84manoj * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
aa1faea36e4ae357bc603a2337b6adc54f5daec1manoj which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
aa1faea36e4ae357bc603a2337b6adc54f5daec1manoj * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj duplicates what is in APR.
fbfdb4a45ff0e32dbfef0d414c8d75fe8aebcbb9manoj * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
dbf0c7bef06259486cd2748a2d0e82f27e099d6efielding are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj implementations (including something like the existing data type,
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: fanf is working on this.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj [ gjs: still? really? ]
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj for predictable mod_auth_db/dbm administration.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Integrate mod_dav.
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding Some additional items remaining:
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding - case_preserved_filename stuff
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding (use the new canonical name stuff?)
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj translation has decided to do.
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding * add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
* (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
* the LTFLAGS = -export-dynamic in the config.m4 is wrong. it is getting
should probably move into build/special.mk (the make file used for
Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
Feedback/Comment on APACI
Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
No way to change ReadmeName/HeaderName suffixes.
MIME types for MNG and JNG files need adding to mime.types and
the mime.types and magic files
obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
* Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
* Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.